Donald Trump is a master of everything on every issue and the media continues to run into the issue, treating the American people to pretend that Trump doesn’t use verbal tricks to avoid accountability.
For the last nine years, the legacy media has failed the American people, but this year, they did it in a very clear and shocking way. Two of these incidents occurred in the last 24 hours, the first being the Washington Post and the second being PolitiFact, both of which would be Republican president Donald Trump.
The Washington Post DNC ​​fact-checker has raised eyebrows, with Rachel Vindman writing at the top of the tweet below, “Dear @washingtonpost we’re done. It’s not me, it’s you. I hope I can continue to support some of the journalists you use who I still admire and respect you, but you can’t do it. Good night.”
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The Washington Post “fact checkerâ€
from night 1 of the embarrassing DNC. pic.twitter.com/MOSxN8aXpP— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 20, 2024
Fact checkers claim that Trump is saying too much telling people to inject bleach into their bodies because, basically, Trump is telling people to inject disinfectant into their lungs. And hey, he then said he was being sarcastic, which suggests that the Post is telling us that Trump is a reliable narrator, so if there’s a long history of ::check my notes:: lying, we should take his word for it.
The “fact checker” also said that Clinton was wrong to say that Trump wrote “love letters to dictators” when he said VP Kamala Harris. will not do so. He then quoted Trump talking about falling in love with North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un and the beautiful letters Trump wrote, ending with “We fell in love.”
Additionally, in September 2020, CNN reported that Bob Woodward obtained 27 Trump-Kim letters for his 2020 book, and CNN published two of them when Woodward recorded them.
Bob Woodward received 27 “love letters†President Donald Trump exchanged with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, 25 of which have not been reported publicly. Letters, filled with flowery language, give an attractive window to the relationship. Kim praised Trump by repeatedly calling him “Your Highness,” and wrote in a letter that a reunion would be “like a scene from a fantasy movie.” In another, Kim wrote that “the deep and special friendship between us will be a magical force.” CNN has obtained transcripts of the two letters.
Trump just love a dictator, but don’t tell me he sent the dictator a love letter. Instead of pointing out that the accused criminal running for president with a published plan on his behalf to become a dictator and the desire to be a dictator “for a day” (no dictator for a day, though) has a love affair with a dictator, the fact checkers want us to know that there is no evidence that Trump sent love letters to Kim and we don’t know what was in his letters. We are for treat that Trump prefers to write a private letter than in public when he says, “We love you.”
Phew.
The Post then mentioned that when Trump said there should be some kind of punishment for women who have abortions, he then went back on it, so… The Supreme Court Justice who overturned the “established law” of Roe V Wade and upheld a national abortion ban and he has different types of exciting women’s health tracking and even ten years ago, Republicans forced neighbors and families to report. for pregnant women, but don’t worry! He walked again.
PolitiFact is also involved. “The DNC video showed a 2016 clip of Trump saying ‘there should be penalties’ for women who have abortions. He walked back his comments the same day. We found no evidence that he now supports legal penalties for women who have abortions.
Attorney Brad Moss, who specializes in litigation in matters related to national security, federal employment and security clearances, shot back: “‘He returned that comment the same day’ Are you laughing? He said that. You can record it if he walks again but that doesn’t make what he said any less accurate. That’s right, that’s what he said.
“He returned the comment the same day”
Are you fricking kidding me? He said that. You can note that he’s running again but that doesn’t make what he said any less accurate. He really said that. Actually, that’s what he said. https://t.co/OD5zwvZSTP
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) August 20, 2024
It would be inaccurate to suggest that Trump does not support punishment for women who have abortions, and in this matter, the Washington Post and PolitiFact put women and girls in danger.
Then the Post moved on to President Biden’s comments about Trump calling the brave service members who died “sucks and losers,” claiming that was inaccurate because Trump’s then Chief of Staff John Kelly didn’t say Trump said “sucks,” just “losers.”
Don’t you feel good about the state of our democracy? Everyone, relax! The commander simply called the dead heroes who gave their lives for global democracy “losers”.
But wait. It is also not the whole truth.
Donald Trump was accused by Chief of Staff General John Kelly of refusing to visit the graves of American heroes who gave their lives in our defense and calling them “losers.” The “suckers and losers” quote given to four people who knew about the event when it happened had the support of senior staff members present:
Trump rejected the idea of ​​the visit because he feared his hair would get tangled in the rain, and because he did not believe it was important to honor American war dead, according to four people with direct knowledge of the discussions. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of his scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why do I have to go to that cemetery? It’s full of losers.†In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump mentioned the more than 1,800 marines who died in Belleau Wood is a “sucker” because it was killed.
So he’s quibbling about attributing “sucks and losses” to Kelly, who might as well just say “lost.” But he might have said “sucks and losses” at a different time because the Post just quoted what Kelly said in a statement to CNN. We also have four people who were there saying that Trump said two.
What’s more important as a journalist: Determine the character of a candidate for president who shows disregard for the forces that would be in authority or thinks that he didn’t say “bastard” even if the people who were there said it, and decide who needs to be fact-checked because they can consider one of the insults to the wrong person. Better fact checking for the public?
The bottom line is that Donald Trump always takes all the trouble (warning language is not safe for work). Using deliberate manipulative tactics to do what you want, which is to mislead people about important issues in life and about abortion being their life, is unacceptable.
Here he is, in all his glory, taking all sides of the problem, something the media refuses to contextualize the reader, instead preferring to fall for and gaslighting those who pay for their services:
The way to deal with prolific liars who manipulate through their language is to look at what they do and the trends in their behavior. Quite often, Donald Trump has done the things he said he would do and then gone back on them. It is fair to be concerned and raise it as a concern.
Inaccuracy must suffer because Donald Trump is a habitual liar. It’s that proper fact-checking will put Trump’s history of lies and ramblings into context.
It does not check the fact that it serves the opposite purpose of informing people. A reality check should not repeatedly benefit people who know how to take advantage of the system that gives credit to this particular person when something goes back or rejects it because it allows someone not easy to account. In spirit, this is the opposite of fact-checking.
Of course, that reality check failed the American people. The reaction is proof that people are fed up with the press making excuses for Donald Trump’s bad behavior and treachery.
Sarah has been trusted to cover President Barack Obama, then VP Joe Biden, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and exclusively interviewed Speaker Nancy Pelosi several times and exclusively covered the first home appearance after the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Sarah is a two-time Telly award-winning video producer and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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